New Mexico SLAPP Stories:

The Tenth Circuit denied the ability to use New Mexico's anti-SLAPP statute in federal court in diversity cases. This means that New Mexico speakers facing SLAPP suits may only benefit from the protection of the state’s anti-SLAPP law if the people trying to sue them are local to New Mexico.

A woman sought to recoup $135,000, which her lawyer told jurors was her legal debt to defend herself in a defamation lawsuit. She faced the lawsuit after speaking out against a local teacher she thought was violating school sex offender policies.